David Lynch

"As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them."

"Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together."

"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"

"I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go."

"I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it."

"I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool."

"I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out."

"I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing."

"I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal."

"More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't."

"Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money."

"Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things."

"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."

"Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist."

"Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things."

"Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those."

"The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience."